n00bs! - November 14, 2003 11:18 PM
So, by now you've probably seen the '00bs!' thing now and are wondering what we're up to. Well, it's something experimental we want to try. It seems being a n00b (newbie, or new member to the site) is becoming more and more difficult. The veterans of the site have nothing better to do then give new members a hard time... so we're starting a 'newbie protection program'. Newbies posting messages will be denoted with a next to their name. Veterans are expected (read: we'll just delete your nonsense, and delete your post-deletion whining about why your post got deleted, rinse, repeat...) to either simply answer the newbie's question without a bunch of BS, or just ignore them if the post is just too... uhm, newbieish or has been covered 132,452 times already. We'll probably develop some 'How to graduate from n00bdom' type classes to get newbies to learn about search and the FAQ/Auto-FAQ system for their own safety.
We've had the system up and running in the background for a few days, and it's pretty shocking to see how well things actually work and how things can work better for all of us once you see who's 'new' to the tt.NET community and who's a veteran.
For those new members that want to buck the n00b protection plan. Don't bother running up accesses or whatever. We've come up with a decently complex system for determining n00b status. So just enjoy it for the time you have it... we want you to get a handle on how things work around here instead of just jumping in and typically getting torn apart by the vets. Everyone show some respect both ways and we *all* will get along just fine.
On the other hand, if this idea sucks... we'll just drop it. But we think it will be a benefit to the community in the long run. So in short: Posters with next to their names are going to be 'protected' as best as possible by the moderators to ease the transisition into the often very deep water of tt.NET life... and vets can just ease off them a bit because you'll know who's new. Who knows you just might learn something along the way because just because they aren't a vet here doesn't mean they don't know anything about our beloved Z car.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Added support for some UBB tags - November 14, 2003 01:11 AM
I've seen several people attempt to use these recently to no avail. As we've all seen Windows beat UNIX and VHS beat Beta, even the mighty tt.NET must succumb somewhat to the bubblegum popcorn Hello Kitty! that is UBB. :-/
We now support the bold, italic, image, and url UBB style tags in messages and will parse and translate them appropriately. Example:
[ url=http://whatever]My Link[/url]
Without the space between the [ and url.
Written by Greg (Dallas)
Image pop-up previews! - November 13, 2003 09:09 AM
Based on a kick-ass idea from Damon I implemented a preview popup for images. If you have Show Tool Tip Message Previews turned OFF in your profile then you will not see them.
To activate, simply roll over any image icon beside a message. The first image in the message will pop up for previewing.
Enjoy!
Events viewing problems have been fixed - October 25, 2003 11:57 PM
Anyone who has had trouble getting a blank page in Events when you are logged in, should notice that this problem has gone away.
Please don't post certain images 'inline'. - September 06, 2003 11:40 AM
We would prefer to not see anymore 'service manual' images inline (posted visibly on this site) or 'parts diagram' images (unless it's one from our own Docs section). If you want to link to the page or image, that's OK. We just don't want to see them inline in messages anymore.
Multiple ads in Classifieds will be deleted - May 13, 2003 10:20 AM
There are a lot of people lately that just post as many classified ads as they please. As a courtesy to everyone else that uses the Classifieds section, please consolidate your ads down to at least 2 (TWO), not 12, not 5, not 3, but TWO a day. Most of them can be done in 1... I usually send a nice little admin message explaining the rules that are stated at the top of the Classifieds posting page about only doing 2 at a time. I'm tired of that, so just expect your posts to get deleted. If you persistantly do it, then I'll just ban you. Simple.
Carfax requests will be deleted - May 06, 2003 08:51 AM
Greg had a sticky message posted, I figured I'd make it permanent over here in NEWS. Repeating, Carfax requests will be deleted.
Modification to a new feature - April 21, 2003 11:11 PM
Many of you have seen the new 'tool tip' message preview on all of the main forum pages. While I think it's pretty neat, and a lot of others do too, we're all about personal choice around here :-)
So... the tool tip message preview is now a profile setting. Go to Members->Edit Profile and scroll down towards the bottom and you will see a Yes/No setting for it. If you wish to turn it off, just set it to No and save your profile. By default, everybody is set to Yes.
New Feature ... thanks to Kyle(MN) ! - April 20, 2003 01:16 PM
At Kyle's request, I have added some options to the search page that allow you to now search classifieds for only SELLING or WANTED posts as well as all posts. Seemed to make a lot of sense to me when I saw the request.
Couple of new changes - April 18, 2003 08:26 PM
In addition to a bunch of bug fixes, there are two new features out:
1. Auto-preview. On main forum pages now, if you put your cursor over a message subject and leave it there for a few seconds, you should get a 'tool tip' style pop up window that shows you the first few hundred characters of the message. It has been received well so far and can be quite useful.
2. For those using the default 'synthtk' theme, you should now see the elusive PSI counter. For those that are not familiar with it, this shows the count of people who are currently online on TwinTurbo.NET. (Thanks to clever Damon, PSI stands for 'People Seeking Intelligence') :-) If you click on the PSI counter it will take you to the online members page which gives details of who's online and what they are doing.
If you run into any bugs or other odd troubles, please email me directly at: greg@twinturbo.net
